Qatadah reported this story from Saeed bin al-Musayyab. This version adds: When he was invited on the third day, he did not accept but threw pebbles on the messenger.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: When the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم returned to Madina, he would slaughter a camel or a cow.

Abu Shuraih al-Kaabi reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as sayings: He who believes in Allah and the Last Day should honour his guest provisions for the road are what will serve for a day and night: hospitality extends for three days; what goes after that is sadaqah (charity): and it is not allowable that a guest should stay till he makes himself an encumbrance. Abu Dawud said: Malik was asked about the saying of the Prophet: "Provisions for the road what will serve for a day a night. " He said: He should honor him, present him some gift, and protect him for a day and night, and hospitality for three days.

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Hospitality extend for three days, and what goes beyond that is sadaqah (charity).

Narrated AbuKarimah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: It is a duty of every Muslim (to provide hospitality) to a guest for a night. If anyone comes in the morning to his house, it is a debt due to him. If he wishes, he may fulfil it, and if he wishes he may leave it.

Narrated Al-Miqdam AbuKarimah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: If any Muslim is a guest of people and is given nothing, it is the duty of every Muslim to help him to the extent of taking for him from their crop and property for the entertainment of one night.

Uqbah bin Amir said: we said: Messenger of Allah! You send us out and we come to people who do not give hospitality, so what is your opinion? The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: If you come to people who order for you what is fitting for a guest, accept it; but if they do not, take from them what is fitting for them to give to a guest. Abu Dawud said: And this is an authority for a man to take a thing if it is due to him.

Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas: When the verse: "O ye who believe! eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities, but let there be amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good will" was revealed, a man thought it a sin to eat in the house of another man after the revelation of this verse. Then this (injunction) was revealed by the verse in Surat an-Nur: "No blame on you whether you eat in company or separately. " When a rich man (after revelation) invited a man from his people to eat food in his house, he would say: I consider it a sin to eat from it, and he said: a poor man is more entitled to it than I. The Arabic word tajannah means sin or fault. It was then declared lawful to eat something on which the name of Allah was mentioned, and it was made lawful to eat the flesh of an animal slaughtered by the people of the Book.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم forbade that the food of two people who were rivalling on another should be eaten Abu Dawud said: Most of those who narrated it from Jarir did not mentione the name of Ibn Abbas. Harun al-Nahwi mentioned Ibn Abbas in it, and Hammad bin Zaid did not mention Ibn Abbas.

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib: Safinah Abu Abdur Rahman said that a man prepared food for Ali ibn Abu Talib who was his guest, and Fatimah said: I wish we had invited the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and he had eaten with us. They invited him, and when he came he put his hands on the side-ports of the door, but when he saw the figured curtain which had been put at the end of the house, he went away. So Fatimah said to Ali: Follow him and see what turned him back. I (Ali) followed him and asked: What turned you back, Messenger of Allah? He replied: It is not fitting for me or for any Prophet to enter a house which is decorated.